At 3:47 PM -0600 23/6/03, ron minnich wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, David Eliasson wrote:
I read on the linuxbios webpage about PPC-support.. Aren t you guys aware of the U-boot project?
Sure.
They've been running the GNU Linux kernel 2.4.19 and 2.4 21 in firmware for a while now.. Maybe I m just missing something, but I thought some merging of efforts might be in place..
I tried to have a conversation with somebody from u-boot about some sort of merge, but it never got beyond the "why u-boot is better than linuxbios" stage, so I dropped it.
I spent some time looking at PPCBoot (now called u-boot) before I did the PPC port of linuxbios, but in the end I didn't use much. Most of the "hard" stuff came from another open source bios project called GBios, particularly the PCI code.
The major advantages that linuxbios has over u-boot is the flexibility it provides in configuration management, and now that it has been ported to 3+ architectures, the architecture dependencies are particularly well defined.
Greg